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Solving iMac fan noise issue after HDD replacement


Everyone who replaces HDD in most of iMac models faces the problem that HDD fan will start to spin at maximum speed after the replacement. This speed is about 6000-7000 RPM and the noise produced is unbearable (it happens because Apple puts special firmware in its HDDs)! What is more - you cannot just switch off the fan or put it rotating at MIN value (actually it's OK but only for SSD), because it will cause HDD overheating.

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Snapshots vs Realtime monitor when monitoring program installation


There’re two approaches towards monitoring programs installations (in order to be able to perform clean removal). The first old school way - using of registry and file system snapshots before and after installation, then comparison of these 2 snapshots. The second, the one that is used in Uninstall Tool - real-time monitoring using Install Tracker (Installation Monitor). This is the most advanced and modern way and here’s why:

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Clean Removal of iTunes


Modern version of iTunes for Windows is not only a media player/library and iDevices synchronization tool. It's functionality goes further and the app itself is much bigger in size. It installs other Apple software during its installation and registers several services and start-up items. "Apple Application Support", "Apple Mobile Device Support", "Apple Software Update", "Bonjour" apps are always installed together with iTunes.

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Mounting DMG image files to Vmware, Palallels or VirtualBox on Windows & Mac


DMG is Mac OS X native disk image format while virtual machines (VmWare, Parallels or VirtualBox) are able to mount ISO images only. With AnyToISO program you can convert DMG to ISO and mount the resulting ISO image to your virtual machine (running Mac OS X).

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Extract XAR files or Convert to ISO on Windows and Mac


Starting from version 3.5 AnyToISO is able to extract (and convert to ISO) XAR archives. This format is not widely used on Windows but can be frequently found in macOS for software installation packages.

AnyToISO makes it possible to extract XAR files in a very simple and understandable way:

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Extract RPM on Windows and Mac, Convert RPM to ISO


RPM Linux archives are of special format that is supported by AnyToISO. It makes is possible to extract them or convert to ISO in a very straightforward way.

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Extract PKG files on Mac and Windows


PKG files are Mac OS X installation (setup) packages that contain installer scripts ('Scripts' file) and compressed installation files ('Payload' file) that are used to install Mac software applications onto a user's hard drive. With AnyToISO it's possible to extract PKG file contents and even convert it to ISO format, on both Windows and Mac OS X.

The following files have also the same format and are supported by AnyToISO: .mpkg, .pfpkg

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7Z to ISO Converter, Extract 7Z files on Windows & Mac


7Z archive format came from Windows world and become very popular today due to its extremely hi compression ratio and unique compression algorithms (LZMA/LZMA2). You can use AnyTOISO as a plain and simple .7Z unpacker on Windows and Mac OS X systems while also being able to perform 1-click 7Z to ISO conversion:

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ZIP to ISO Converter, convert ZIP archives to ISO on Windows and Mac


ZIP is the most widely spread industrial archive format in the world and ISO is a archive standard for storing disk contents (without compression and password protection). One often needs to convert a ZIP archive to ISO using direct conversion (no need to use one program to extract and the other to create ISO). A common use case of such conversion is possibility to mount resulting ISO images without having to unpack (mount to virtual machine or a virtual drive). ISO files can be also easily burned on a CD/DVD. AnyToISO does the job in a single click.

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RAR to ISO Converter, convert WinRAR archives to ISO, Extract RAR on Windows and Mac


One often needs to convert a RAR archive to ISO using direct conversion (no need to use one program to extract and the other to create ISO). A common use case of such conversion is possibility to mount resulting ISO images without having to unpack (mount to virtual machine or a virtual drive). Here comes AnyToISO, it does the job in a single click:

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